Archive for August 25th, 2003

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Ben Hammersley’s Unfortunate Precedent

I’m sure he’s a nice guy, and he did make it to Kabul, but
I have to say Ben
Hammersley has let me down and must be removed from my
list of blogging heros. [...]

The Greenspun McDonald’s Diet

Philip
Greenspun offers an elegant exposition of the "The
McDonald’s Diet" explaining how to lose 5 lbs/week eating only
in McDonald’s.
"After a month traveling, I’ve concluded that the best way to [...]

A Day in the Life of a Public Defender

If any of my ex-law students, just now starting your respective LLM programs, are still reading the blog, I think you will be interested in this eye-opening and well written description of a typical day for attorney Krista M. Larsen, a public defender in the Chelsea Trial Court:
“The first order of business for Larsen, [...]

Original Manila Logo Found

An unnamed reader sent in what he claims was the
original logo design for our favorite blogging software. Wonder why they went to the cartoon…
(thanks Gabe)

Wait! It’s Still Summer!

Gadzooks! Is it college football time already? Freshman
move-in weekend and its attendant spectacle of unleashed 18-year-olds
barfing in the bushes hasn’t even happened here in Collegetown yet,
[...]

Dean Archie Epps Dead at 66

Sadly, Harvard yesterday announced the death following
surgery of longtime Dean Archie Epps. I met Dean Epps for
the first time in 1971, when he was the young (mid-30’s), hip (well,
he was [...]


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